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PLEITGEN: “They don’t want America to strike back and they said — and they’re essentially saying that they don’t want this to turn into a larger war. That doesn’t necessarily mean that this is going to be the only retaliation or this is going to be the only strikes that we’re going to see, but the Iranians are essentially warning President Trump and the U.S. Not to continue and escalate the situation any further. They’re warning any governments in the region not to provide the U.S. With any capabilities to launch attacks at Iran, saying any governments that do so will also become targets for Iran as well. They then threatened Israel, saying they don’t consider what they call a zionist regime to be separate from America. And then and finally, this is quite interesting, they urge the American people to call on American troops from the region to prevent further casualties and not allow essentially the Trump Administration to endanger their lives. Obviously, essentially, telling American forces in that region not to follow President Trump’s orders, if those are to attack Iran. So you can see, they seem to have put this statement out or they seem to have drafted a statement, at least, well in advance. This does appear more and more, Erin, like a very, very concerted and orchestrated retaliation by the Iranians.”